Quentin Bell, younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, has been not only a biographer but also a painter, sculptor, and art critic. Uniquely qualified for understanding and interpreting the world of Bloomsbury, his superlative two-volume biography of his...

Marvellous cheek lies behind the notion that levitation, the flouting of mass and weight, could become the subject of sculpture. For many years a horizontal lady with a vertical mane of hair hovered over Quentin Bell's garden, her seemingly bronze body in fact made...

Quentin Bell, artist, critic and biographer of his aunt, Virginia Woolf, died Monday. He was 86. Bell, son of Woolf's sister Vanessa and the art critic Clive Bell, died at his home in Firle, south of London, his family said. An obituary published...

According to Hermione Lee, author of a “definitive” biography published nearly a decade ago, “Virginia Woolf’s story is reformulated by each generation. She takes on the shape of difficult modernist … or comedian of manners, or neurotic highbrow aesthete, or inventive fantasist, or pernicious snob,...

According to Hermione Lee, author of a “definitive” biography published nearly a decade ago, “Virginia Woolf’s story is reformulated by each generation. She takes on the shape of difficult modernist … or comedian of manners, or neurotic highbrow aesthete, or inventive fantasist, or pernicious...